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Live and in 3-D: Stem-Cell Printouts

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Gautam Naik

Feb. 5, 2013 6:13 p.m. ET

Researchers have printed out human embryonic stem cells in a three-dimensional format, part of a wider quest to eventually fashion human body parts on demand.

Dozens of labs around the world have been experimenting with machines that can squirt out living cells, and thus build 3-D tissue structures, layer by layer. The latest research suggests the 3-D printing technique could be widely used with human embryonic stem cells. The...